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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\n Everyone is on Facebook these days and, while it's great to be able to connect with college friends, spy on high school crushes and share photos with Grandma all at the same time, it can seriously stress you out. The University of Edinburgh Business School recently did a study  finding that the more people we're linked to on Facebook, the more anxious we become. After surveying over 300 Facebook users, researchers found that adding employers or parents as friends resulted in the greatest increase in anxiety.People also got more stressed when they posted pics or anecdotes showing them in a not-so-favorable light\u2014things like swearing, recklessness, drinking and smoking\u2014that might offend either of those groups. (Other studies have shown that 55 percent of parents follow their children on Facebook and that more than half of employers claim not to have hired someone based on his or her Facebook page.)The report also discovered that more people are Facebook friends with their former partners  (64 percent) than with their current relationship partners (56 percent), which we can imagine only ups the stress factor. Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter @NatashaBurton."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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